A former chemist, manager, auditor, and consultant in the specialty gas industry. Also, a senior lab associate, accidental sysadmin, and student of journalism and a copy editor and award-winning columnist for UC's The News Record.
More recently, granted a Master's degree in Technical Communication & Information Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The value of the research is used in the process of allocating resources. Traditionally, bibliometric methods, such as citation counts or journal impact factors, are used to evaluate the value of research. However, there are concerns of the accuracy and appropriateness of the bibliometrics being used. Most importantly, bibliometric methods do not capture the impact of research on economies and societies on general. In this thesis, I detail some common bibliometric methods—and their problems—after which I describe examples of government evaluation frameworks that include both the impact of research on other research as well as its socio-economic impact. A combination of areas of effect such as is used in those frameworks is likely future of evaluating the value of research. Full text…
A selection of formal papers I wrote while earning my MS at Illinois Tech. Includes a literature review of the theory and practice of gamification, and a guide to selecting alternatives to email. More…
As a way to improve my own understanding of the four major descriptive characteristics of linear regressions—α, β, sample size, and size of effect—I created a different way of visualizing those characteristics and their interrelations. Though not academically rigorous, I'm sharing my explanation of the characteristics and the graphics I've created in the hope that they may help others to better understand the interaction of those characteristics, and their effects on a regression analysis. Full text…
These pages aren't derived from formal papers, but rather are just a collection of my webpages on a variety of topics. Includes…. More…
